Meadows v. Holliday

Harshbarger, Justice:

Charles Edward Meadows seeks to prohibit the Circuit Court of Mason County from trying him on an indictment for receiving stolen property. He was charged by warrant in magistrate court on November 27, 1978, with receiving and transferring stolen property and was released on a $500 cash bond. 1 He requested a jury trial which was set for February 16, 1979.

On January 22, 1979, the prosecuting attorney, without notice to Meadows or his attorney, dismissed the charge without prejudice, in order to initiate grand jury proceedings in the circuit court. The prosecutor indicat ed…